Travel Tip: Jazz in United StatesAbyssinian: A Gospel Celebration

Two decades ago, Wynton Marsalis composed and recorded In This House, On This Morning and began a creative exploration of how to reflect the forms of the African American church service onto a theme of universal humanism while raising a joyful noise. Marsalis refined this integration of sacred and secular expression with his definitive 2008 extended work Abyssinian 200: A Celebration, commissioned by the Abyssinian Baptist Church on West 138th Street in Harlem to celebrate its 200th anniversary. After a performance in London's Barbican Centre, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis performs this masterwork. The conductor Damien Sneed leads Chorale Le Chateau, his 70-person gospel choir.,